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[Stroggy]

Well it probably was a nailbomb but only the detonator detonated.
My guess is another splintercell tried to copy the attack but built the bombs so quickly (two weeks perhaps?) that they didn't detonate properly.

[Danny252]

Seems they were intended to kill, but failed. They may have been simultaneous and are being linked to the previous bombs.
gotta love the Beeb.

[Stroggy]

The Metropolitan Police has just affurmed what I had suspected: they were bombs but only the detonator detonated, possibly because the bombs were made too quickly in order to copy the previous bombing.

[efthimios]

I hope they capture the guys behind them and interrogate them fully. Then finish them off.

I doubt they had anything directly to do with al-qaeda, apart perhaps from being inspired by them.

[Microprose Veteran]

Well, at least we're fighting them in Iraq instead of over here... :Titan:

[Kearnsy]

I was in America at the time so it was made into a huge deal.
Glad to see that no one was even badly hurt this time.

How do you guys/gals who are in the UK feel?
(as in will this change the way you travel to work or school etc.)

[PrejudiceSucks]

To be honest, there have been a fair few attacks on London and this is one of the crappest. I don't really care about it, but on the other hand, I bet those bombers wished that they have blown themselves up.

They'll probably be in Guantanimo Bay for a lengthy spell, enduring some kind of american torture *shudders*.

[mm_pie]

Now more shootings in london. Let's hope this wasn't american style friendly fire. But if it was a terrorist, it proves the system does kinda work.

[Sean]

Originally posted by BBC

Man shot by armed police on Tube*
*
A man has been shot at Stockwell Tube station by armed police officers.
Passenger Mark Whitby told BBC News he had seen a man of Asian appearance shot five times by "plain-clothes police officers" with a handgun.

Passengers were evacuated from the Northern Line station in south London. Police have also cordoned off surrounding streets.

A mosque in east London has been evacuated after a bomb scare - but a police cordon has now been lifted.

Police are hunting four would-be bombers after Thursday's London blasts.

The bombers fled after detonators went off, causing small blasts, but failed to detonate the bombs themselves.

Services on the Victoria and Northern lines have been suspended following a request by the police, London Underground said.

Ambulances including an air ambulance have been sent to the scene at Stockwell.

* They pushed him to the floor, bundled on top of him and unloaded five shots into him

Witness Mark Whitby


'They unloaded five shots'

Mr Whitby, told BBC News: "I was sitting on the train reading my paper.

"I heard a load of noise, people saying, 'Get out, get down'!

"I saw an Asian guy run onto the train hotly pursued by three plain-clothes police officers.

"One of them was carrying a black handgun - it looked like an automatic - they pushed him to the floor, bundled on top of him and unloaded five shots into him.

"I saw the gun being fired five times into the guy - he's dead."

Passenger Briony Coetsee said: "We were on the Tube and then we suddenly heard someone say, 'Get out, get out' and then we heard gunshots."

Passenger Alison Bowditch told BBC News: "The tube pulled into the station and we were sitting there, you know, as you do and then there was just a lot of shouting and the sound of gunfire and then people were saying, 'Get off, get off!'

"Somebody definitely went to the ground and as they went to the ground I heard gun fire and assumed they had been shot."

[PrejudiceSucks]

It doesn't actually say what he was running from, I'd be running too if there were 3 people in plain clothes with a handgun chasing after me.

It doesn't even say that they found a bomb on him, to me this sounds like a 'victory' for the UK police force that will be hammered into us again and again.